Ilya Milstein: Kim Jong Trump

The great commander listened to the report of his generals, who developed a plan for the bombing of the enemy air base. The great commander laughed at the "stupid and stupid Yankees", notifying that he would monitor their behavior. The great commander decided so far with the launch of missiles.

Good news almost never comes from North Korea, which is why the recent message about the peacekeeping initiative of Marshal DPRK is shocked. You read directly and do not believe. After all, if you translate what has been said from the language of the language into the language accessible to us and correctly evaluate what is happening, then the unbending Kim retreated. And this event is rare in the history of Pyongyang’s relationship with the rest of humanity.

Of course, the temporary evasion of the battle is furnished according to the rules adopted in this unprecedented country. The refusal of a short time to hit the guam is accompanied by jokes and jokes and obvious threats to the Americans, but they should not be overestimated too much. The young leader really somehow doubted that the escalation of the conflict with Washington in response to the recent tightening of the sanctions policy of the UN Security Council would be a reasonable step.

He himself is probably surprised: how could this happen to him? Until now, all Kima, grandfather, dad and grandson, in discussions with the outside world, rarely showed themselves to people prone to reflection. On the move you will not even remember when they showed it. For the technologies of blackmail in these discussions have already been firmly mastered, in fact, proving its effectiveness for decades. Since Kim Il Saint, who accepted the country with Soh, left it with Sohu and a nuclear bomb, Pyongyang in a dialogue with civilization successfully exploited and constantly upgraded the same methodology.

Continuously armed and scolding, the leaders of North Korea exchanged their nuclear conspiracy for fuel oil, food and money. Like, you feed us, they said, and for this we will not touch you. Otherwise, find a "sea of fire" on you.

The technique began to fail allegedly a year and a half years ago, when Kim Jong -un solemnly announced the creation of a hydrogen bomb. Then in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, Brussels, Moscow and many other cities, it was difficult to think about what would turn out for descendants, or even contemporaries, a policy of fearful completing completely unpredictable Kims - past, present and future. It opened that the DPRK was noticeably different, for example, from the late USSR, who were ruled by rather stubborn, but still sane people who were not ready to hunge their people during the arms race with the West. The cruel Kims of the Northern Koreans were actually hilarious, and how Pyongyang would behave, getting a real nuclear shield, could only be guessed. I didn’t want to guess.

Trump, the first among the American presidents and in general political leaders, spoke with the Northern Koreans in the language that they understand

The situation began to change radically after Donald Trump came to the White House, whose ideas about the arrangement of life on Earth were exotic, and among the natural properties, resolute and aggression prevailed. What not only readers of the Presidential Twitter, but also foreign partners, including opponents, learned. So, he did not hesitate to strike at Syria, solving two tasks at the same time: punishing the dictator and pointing to the “wimp” of Baraku Obama, which should be done if the enemy crossed the line. Slightly coarsening, we can say that the adamant developer created himself a reputation as a person who was better not to contact, and this partly brought him closer to the Pyongyan comrades.

In the sense of unpredictability, he looks like them, as for nuclear weapons, then by the number of ammunition that he has noticeably surpasses them. It is so noticeable that yesterday Kim Jong -un suddenly decided to give a chance to America. Having yet abandoned even the intention to deliver an imitation blow to Guam. And he did so because Trump, the first among the American presidents and in general political leaders, spoke with the Northern Koreans in the language that he understood. In the language of a scam. In the end, the "fire and anger" that he promised by Kim Jong -un is in the exact translation and is the "sea of fire", which scares the neighbors of the DPRK, extorting money. That is, as long as civilized gentlemen talked with Kims, using different miserable words and phrases such as "nuclear disarmament" and "sanctions", it did not act. Trump was needed, brutal and in itself, and put in circumstances in which war could unite both the people and the establishment - and we witnessed the miracle. The fearless Kim trembled.

Voluntarily or involuntarily, the US president put up a certain experiment, as a result of which it seemed to be revealed how the civilized world should be talked with the great commander. In what stylistics to communicate with him, hoping to be heard. So, probably, it follows - in the manner that responds to the interlocutors. Well, there is a point of view that North Korea is controlled by pragmatists who only depict violently, but in fact they are completely not ready for suicide and the sad completion of the sad history of their country. It is believed that they, in appearance of pragmatists, are terrible insofar as they are afraid, and this applies to all dictators selling fears. People are unusually proud, but also able to listen to the voice of reason if the voice sounds loud and rude.

Another question is how true these assumptions, guesses, forecasts are. Still, the bets in the game on the Korean Peninsula are very high, and the choice is small: either to continue to follow the blackmails, or to harshly call them to order. In the first case, it is almost unbearable to think about the future, in the second - you have to take risks today. The experiment continues.

Ilya Milstein - journalist

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